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I changed the blog settings so now anyone can post comments annonymosly without an account, so start commenting! and, my email is ninja_turtle33@hotmail.com and my inbox has been empty. where's the love?????

We got to chiangmai yesterday and we could tell right away that it is way more relaxed here. we slept through most of the day on account of the bus ride the nigt before. we didn't get gassed thankfully and we didn't have anything stolen. which is a plus. Our bus however, well, the back tire blew up on the higway causing the bus to literaly grind to a halt. it was kind of funny really, and everyone on the bus just laughed. I tink everyone on the bus assumed something would go wrong on the trip. We only had to wait an hour for another bus to come and get us, so everything went smoothly after that...kind of. Instead of being dropped off at a bus station, we were dropped off at a gas station. and then crammed into the back of two converted pick-up trucks with roof racks. Of course, there wasn't enough room for all of us so the driver calmly told me and two british dudes to stand on the back gate and hold on to the luggage rack. And, naturally, the driver didn't drive any slower either. It was a lot of fun actually, albeit a little sketchy. After the ride we took our packs and headed to find a hostel. We found a very nice one called Jonada, and decided to to stay there for a couple of nights. It is a little pricey(350 baht - or $10 between us) but we have our own bathroom and hot shower. We met three british girls last night and hung out with them, we went to a restaurant that had all you can smoke shi-sha for 150 baht(!!!) and got our own houka at the table. They took us to this night bazaar and to a reggae bar on the roof of this building where we met more brits and had a bucket of rice whiskey: a mickey of it, a bottle of redbull and coca cola, and it was only 300 baht. It was SO much fun to talk to other people and just chill out. There is a huge flower festival on right now that we are going to buy tickets for tomorrow. Also, the big thing here seems to be trekking through the jungle to see tribes, so we will probably go for a day or two.
anyway, that it for today, I'm going to go wat-ing (temple-ing)
peace out.
Ben